You might suspect that a one line account about Bigfoot that bears the number “666” is a joke, but AB-666 is apparently a serious offer of California Assembly member Chris Rogers. Rogers represents a Californian district that is known for his bigfoot observations (or 'observations', depending on your conviction – many of these are falsified), and he wants to make Bigfoot the 'official cryptide' of the state.
His bill notes that California already has many official symbols, including the Golden Poppy (official flower), the California Redwood (official tree), the word “Eureka” (official motto), the red -legged frog (official amphibian), the Grizzly Bear (official animal), Swing-dancing (official dance) and the saber-tooth cat (official fossil). The State has so much of these that there are individual categories for freshwater fish (Golden Trout) and Marine Fish (Garibaldi). So why not, does Rogers want to know: “designate Bigfoot as the official cryptid of the state”?
That is … almost the bill that was introduced this week and is already enthusiastic of Bigfoot. Sfgate spoke with Matt Moneymaker, who describes it as “an old Bigfoot researcher and former star of the Animal Planet series Find a bigfoot“About the bill. Moneymaker thinks it is great and notes that he had personally had a face-to-face meeting, after which I was absolutely sure that they existed because I had about 20 feet for me, Groming to me “
Rogers represents California Assembly District 2, a vast vastness of North California with the city of Willow Grove, Epicenter of the Early Bigfoot observations in the 1950s. Nowadays the small community has the Bigfoot Museum, the Bigfoot Motel and the Bigfoot Steakhouse -OM OM Nothing to say about Bigfoot's Barbershop, Bigfoot Equipment & Repair, and of course the Bigfoot Cannabis Company. The bill seems an easy way to goose the interest in Bigfoot and to harvest the tourist dollars that come from that interest.
This is not to deny the underlying reality of a Bigfoot-like being (although you can indeed count me to the extreme, extremely skeptical-sure of these observations of bears). MoneyMaker runs the Bigfoot Field Researchers' Organization, who follows observations in the US. The most recent one I could find on the site was report 77,879 (!), Which came from the Buchanan County countryside on November 10, 2024, Virginia.
